According to Napoleoni's book, Insurgent Iraq, the whole strategy of the Zarqawi wing of the resistance WAS to attack Shia - and other non-Sunni Iraqis- so as to provoke a civil war within the resistance and, apparently solidify an Islamist base among the Sunni population. The murder of the day laborers seems consistent with that strategy. SR
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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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> He did. But compare the death tolls. The resistance, or the sectarian
> militias, or freelancers, whoever have killed many times more Iraqis
> than it/they have killed US soldiers.
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> Doug
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